2 of the six people who were arrested in connection with a naked video-chat scam are back home

Yap Siew Ting and her boyfriend Alexander Soh Zhi Ren were charged on Wednesday with extortion. Yap had apparently befriended a student in an Internet chatroom and allegedly persuaded him to strip naked in front on a webcam. The student is said to have complied after Yap took off her own clothes. His actions were allegedly recorded by Soh without his knowledge. Yap and Soh then allegedly extorted $6,000 from the student. -- PHOTO: LIANHE WANBAO Two of the six people who were arrested in connection with a naked video-chat scam are back home. Chinese-language daily Lianhe Wanbao reported on Thursday that a woman and her boyfriend, who live in the Marsiling Drive flat where arrests were made, have been released. The woman is the mother of the teen who was earlier charged in connection with the case, Yap Siew Ting, 17. The woman's boyfriend is believed to be unrelated to Yap. ...